Ukishima Maru Incident - Ukishima Maru Incident

Japanese: 浮島丸事件 - うきしままるじけん

On August 24, 1945, just after Japan's defeat in the war, the 4,700-ton naval ship Ukishima Maru exploded and sank. The ship, carrying about 4,000 Koreans living in Japan, including those who had been forcibly taken to Japan during World War II and forced to work in Japan, and their families, departed from Ominato Port in Aomori Prefecture on August 22 and was heading to Busan Port when it exploded and sank while attempting to stop at Maizuru Port due to an order from the US military to stop. Over 500 people were killed and several thousand missing. The cause of the incident is unknown, with some stating that the ship had come into contact with a mine, and others that a naval officer, fearing retaliation, blew it up and sank it. The plaintiffs lost a lawsuit filed by survivors and their families seeking compensation from the government in 2004 at the Supreme Court.

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Japanese:

日本敗戦直後の1945年８月24日，海軍御用船浮島丸（4700トン）が爆沈した事件。第２次大戦中に強制連行され，日本で強制労働に従事した者とその家族ら約4000人の在日朝鮮人をのせた同船は，８月22日に青森県大湊港を出港，釜山港へ向かう途中，米軍の停船命令により舞鶴港に寄港しようとした際，爆沈。死者500人以上，行方不明千数百人。原因は機雷に触れたとする説と，報復を恐れた海軍将校が爆破，沈没させたとする説があるが不明。なお，生存者や遺族が国に賠償などを求めた訴訟は，2004年最高裁で原告側の敗訴が確定した。

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